'Codehunters' is a 2009 animation created and directed by Ben Hibon. Its development is shrouded in mystery, but it won many awards and inspired the Gearbox series 'Borderlands". While its animation quality might not seem impressive for today (or even 2009; Crysis, a video game from the same year, looked better at max [though few computers at the time could run it well]), the real point, the meat and potatoes of the animation, shines through in the cool concepting, smooth, cel-shaded artstyle, and quality pacing. The story is rather short, but it revolves around some characters fighting a thing. Video-game-esque in style, but not necessarily bad. The story doesn't FEEL like a short story; short stories have starts, ends, and middle parts. This animation felt like a teaser, a primer for a game I'd love to play. The creator was very good at making the animations feel convincing. Everything did what it looked like it would! The creepy crawlies crawled, the characters moved like they looked like they should've. The animation was fluid, the visual effects weren't excessive. This didn't feel like a group of people bought space on a supercomputer and used it to render garbage, it felt carefully planned and inspired. If it were to improve, it would probably be with modern day stylized graphics, which have drastically improved.
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